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Thirty persons are expected to
participate in the Texas Ready
Mixed Concrete Association short
course Jan. 11-13 at Texas A&M
University.
A. L. Kramer, coordinator for
the Engineering Extension Serv
ice and the TRMCA, said partici
pants will include those persons
concerned with management, pro
duction, marketing and sales.
Topics announced by TRMCA
President William F. Howard in
clude economic outlook for con
struction, future of concrete and
aggregate, training and man
power management, communica
tions, employe relations, market
ing and sales, promotion, prevent
ative maintenance, and general
industry problems.
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Fuller's Follies
THE BATTALION
Wednesday, December 7, 1966 College Station, Texas Page 3
Man Collides With Mother’s Car
One of the Christmas tradi
tions I’ve gotten pretty attached
to is buying a copy of a certain
Columbia Special Recordings al
bum every year. (This is not a
plug, any more than a movie re
view is a plug for the local the
aters. Honest.) So this year,
true to form, I spent a hard-
earned dollar on “Great Songs of
Christmas, Album Six.”
As I drifted off to sleep the
other night, with the last notes
of the recording running through
my head, I began to dream. The
scene was a big walnut-paneled
office at Columbia Records. A
meeting of the Executive Com
mittee in Charge of Great Songs
of Christmas was in session.
At the head of the long confer
ence table sat a man wearing a
Santa Claus suit. Junior execu
tives were conspicuous by their
constant coughing as they
smoked oversize pipes.
“GENTLEMEN, you may have
heard why we’ve called this meet
ing,” the chairman boomed, after
the room had settled down. “The
Greatyear people have done some
research and come up with some
startling — nay, appalling—fig
ures.
“Our Christmas albums cost a
lot of money to make. We get
together the top names in the
industry, back them up with big
orchestras, promote sales with
television advertisements during
football games. The dollar we
get for each record doesn’t begin
to cover the expense; the whole
point in selling these records is
to get people into the stores to
buy other things.”
The chairman paused for em
phasis. “Gentlemen, there’s a
college kid in Texas, named John
Fuller, who’s bought every al
bum without spending a cent on
those other things!”
A GASP escaped all the junior
executives simultaneously. Two
attendants came running with
smelling salts.
“Are we going to let Fuller
get away with this?” demanded
the chairman, as foam began
flecking his lips. “NO, SIR!”
chorused the junior executives.
“Are we going to produce the
biggest disappointment he’s ever
seen for Album Six?” he shout
ed, jumping onto the desk. “YES,
SIR!” the others cried trium
phantly. “Then let’s get to
work,” he said, stepping down
and resuming his seat.
“Now let’s don’t pull any
punches. Let’s stprt off with a
reaL bombshell. Let’s get Barbra
Streisand to sing ‘Silent Night’
and ‘Ave Maria.’ Fuller can’t
STAND Barbra Streisand.” The
room rocked with applause.
“AND THEN we’ll get a re
cording of The King Family
singing that brand-new, tradi
tional old Christmas carol, ‘The
Holiday of Love.’ ”
“Great, Chief!” cried one of
the horn-rimmed set. “Isn’t that
the one that sounds like the
theme song from some big beauty
pageant ?”
The Chief smiled benignly,
nodding almost imperceptibly. “I
commissioned it myself,” he
sniffed, stroking his beard.
“Bravo! A stroke of genius!
You’ve done it again, S.C.!” rang
out from the assembled execu
tives.
“I’D LIKE to sort of yell this
out in the mess hall and see if
anybody wildcats, Chief,” broke
in one of the executives, who had
spent the first semester of his
freshman year at A&M before
transferrin gto Columbia. “What
do you say we put not one, but
three King Family numbers ?
They could do ‘Caroling, Carol
ing,” which even they can’t mess
up, and ‘It Came Upon a Mid
night Clear,’ which they can and
will.”
The Chief beamed. “Farns
worth, I think you’ve got the
makings of a Senior Executive.
We’ll do it.”
Today
American Association of Uni
versity Professors will meet in
room 145 of the Physics Build
ing at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday
Abilene Hometown Club will
meet at 7:45 in the MSC lounge
area for the Aggieland picture.
Wear coat and tie and Class A
winter uniform.
Port Arthur Hometown Club
will meet in the Anderson Room
in the YMCA at 7:30 p.m.
Beaumont Hometown Club will
meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 226
of the Academic Building. Bring
your dues.
Russian Club will have a meet
ing in room 302 of the Military
Science Building at 7:30 p.m. Mr.
Claud Davis of the Government
and History Department will talk
about his travels in Russia. Ev
eryone interested is invited to at
tend.
Waco Hometown Club will
meet in the Reading Room of the
YMCA at 7:30 p.m. Bring your
sweetheart pictures.
Brazoria County Hometown
by John Fuller
Farnsworth blushed furiously
and sat down, too drained of emo
tion to do more than grin and
nod feebly.
“NEXT, WE’LL have the New
Christy Minstrels—I mean, the
NEW New Christy Minstrels—”
The Chief chuckled briefly,
glared around the room, and was
quickly answered with other
chuckles. “. . . to sing a song
from ‘Marne.’ ”
“Tremendous, S.C.!” broke in
a bright-eyed, pink-cheeked Tex
as grad. “I always say, there’s
nothing like a Broadway musical
as a source for traditional, rev
erent Christmas carols!”
“Then, just to keep Fuller on
the string until the very last
minute,” the Chief went on,
“we’ll include a few actual
Christmas songs. I thought we’d
get somebody like Ray Conniff
and the group to sing ‘Hark, the
Herald Angels Sing’—it’ll look
good on the cover—but here’s the
clincher:” (Here, S.C. paused
until the room was deathly still,
then continued in a dramatic
stage whisper.) “We’ll have them
do it to a Cha-cha beat.”
The room exploded with cheers;
paper wads filled the air; the jun
ior executives lifted the Chief
and carried him out on their
shoulders.
And then I woke up.
Club will meet in room 228 of
the Academic Building at 7:30
p.m. Will discuss the Christmas
party.
Austin Hometown Club will
meet in room 208 of the Aca
demic Building at 7:30 p.m.
Deep East Texas Hometown
Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in
room 2-A of the MSC. Impor
tant that all members be there.
Houston Hometown Club will
meet in room 201 of the Physics
Building at 7:30 p.m. The Christ
mas Party, New Years Party,
and Club Picture will be dis
cussed.
San Antonio Hometown Club
will meet in room 113 of the
Biology Sciences Building at 7:30
p.m. Bring your girl’s picture
for the Sweetheart selection, or
turn it in to Dennis Hohman,
dorm 6, room 319; or Jim Hoop
er, dorm 7, room 205.
A Christmas Bazaar will be
sponsored by the Chemical En
gineering Wives Club in front of
Lester’s in Townshire Shopping
Center from 9:30-4:30.
As R. Noyles watched a car
skidding toward the pickup truck
in which he was riding he recog
nized the driver was his mother.
The car hit the truck, bounced
off and plunged over a 200-foot
cliff.
Noyes leaped out, ran to the
edge and peered over with dread.
Emerging from the battered car
far below were his mother, Mrs.
Marie Yvonne Noyes, and brother,
Daniel, 11, of Nelson.
They were only cut and bruised.
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